14-year-old changes teacher's desktop background. Gets felony charges.

[videogames101]

One time a kid at my high school got suspended and faced charges for accessing school servers. Except, they were unsecured servers (just directories sitting on the network, no password) with faculty SSN's in plain text.

And somehow they blamed him for accessing it

Same shit different day. Take control of your own digital security.

 

[rudder]

Doesn't dmcowen674 live in Tampa and work for the school system?

 

[Maximilian]

In high school we changed all the homepages in the computer room to meatspin.com

Wasent there to see the result when the next class to enter the room went online but it was probably lulzworthy :thumbsup:

 

[Sonikku]

Good. Once we have half the world's prison population for small and petty crimes and turn the state prisons over to private companies we can outsource them as cheap slave labor for business. Think of the economic opportunity for profit.

 

[HeXen]

I don't think we had internet at school when I went there, instead it was all networked together. We just got on them to install Leisure Suit Larry for everyone to play.

 

[Captante]

i'm going to be the first to volunteer for anal scans. :d

ftfy!

 

[Mixolydian]

lol @ school districts with 2 factor auth

yeah, no shit. didnt think any of them had this.

 

[Ns1]

yeah, no shit. didnt think any of them had this.

I can imagine school teachers taping their RSAkeys to their monitors so they won't lose them.

 

[Mixolydian]

I can imagine school teachers taping their RSAkeys to their monitors so they won't lose them.

yeah and what about the stupid kids.....

 

[zinfamous]

yay recess

 

[BUTCH1]

password was teachers last name?

how fucking stupid are those IT people

It was probably set up so each user could use their own password for access rather than one single one for the entire network, that being a possibility using you last name is moronic and not noticing someone hanging around while your logging in is almost as bad.

 

[unokitty]

Won't anyone think of the school administrators?

Uno

 

[Red Squirrel]

Won't anyone think of the school administrators?

Uno

That's an insane long URL.

I wonder if he's ever smelled a real school bus before.

 

[Jeff7]

Good. Once we have half the world's prison population for small and petty crimes and turn the state prisons over to private companies we can outsource them as cheap slave labor for business. Think of the economic opportunity for profit.

Why wait? Prisoners are already being used as cheap laborers in the US.

 

[disappoint]

Passwords need to go away. They were never a good solution.

Retinal scan, fingerprint scan, epithelial sample, blood sample and semen sample. No women allowed without supervision near a computer. Just kidding ladies. Call me?

 

[Naer]

Is only a game, why they haf to be mad

 

[Jorge_Orwell]

I wonder what they would do to an 11-yr old that took over a college computer lab and made every comp scroll "DIE SCUM!"?
Why not a just a week of after-school detention for this kid?

 

[mikeford]

There is a legal term, "attractive nuisance" essentially negligently allowing some tempting path to mischief, that should apply to this.

 

[mikeford]

Good. Once we have half the world's prison population for small and petty crimes and turn the state prisons over to private companies we can outsource them as cheap slave labor for business. Think of the economic opportunity for profit.

Why is the left always against programs that create jobs?

One of the many flaws in the criminal justice system is the failure to make inmates work.

 

[Jeff7]

Why is the left always against programs that create jobs?

One of the many flaws in the criminal justice system is the failure to make inmates work.

The unfortunate risk is that some of our economy becomes accustomed to having very inexpensive laborers that can also have more abuse directed at them than a typical laborer. At that point, reducing crime (or reducing lengthy sentences for petty crimes) will be seen as a problem for certain people; it serves to incentivize giving more jail time to ensure a steady or growing pool of labor.

 

[erikistired]

Doesn't dmcowen674 live in Tampa and work for the school system?

i was hoping i wasn't the only one who had this thought.

 

[akugami]

you don't need a budget to know setting your last name as a password if a bad fing idea

shit, there are free password generators out there and im pretty sure one of them in built into windows

The TV show "Bait Car" shows cops leaving cars with the keys in the ignition and when somebody takes them they use tracking equipment to follow them, lock the doors and shut the car off by remote control and arrest the perpetrators for auto theft. They make it look like people were arguing and all got into one of the cars and left or a patrol cop pulls over an undercover "arrests" the undercover and they leave the bait car with the keys in it.

That actually happened to someone I know but with a bicycle. The guy got locked up overnight and had to pay a fine.

 

[riffdex]

And just like that, I felony for you.

 

[yllus]

I was banned from the school computer labs for a month in grade eight for something similar. I guess I'm lucky I didn't grow up in 2015.

 

[werepossum]

Considering that his crime was typing in a teacher's last name after watching the teacher type it in, should he really WANT to return to this school?